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Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory

From Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory
Date 2016-11-10 02:00 +0100
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On 08/11/16 10:44, Reza Arbab wrote:
> When movable nodes are enabled, any node containing only hotpluggable
> memory is made movable at boot time.
> 
> On x86, hotpluggable memory is discovered by parsing the ACPI SRAT,
> making corresponding calls to memblock_mark_hotplug().
> 
> If we introduce a dt property to describe memory as hotpluggable,
> configs supporting early fdt may then also do this marking and use
> movable nodes.

This looks much better, like the other comments pointed out

We need documentation around the changes. One quick question

Have you tested this across all combinations of skiboot/kexec/SLOF boots?

Balbir Singh.

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[PATCH v6 0/4] enable movable nodes on non-x86 configs Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-08 00:50 +0100
  [PATCH v6 1/4] powerpc/mm: allow memory hotplug into a memoryless node Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-08 00:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] powerpc/mm: allow memory hotplug into a memoryless node Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-11-10 02:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-08 00:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-08 21:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> - 2016-11-09 19:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-09 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 02:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-10 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 02:20 +0100

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